Pentagon ordered to locate all US nukes

I'm hardly an expert on the subject, but from what I've read, if a nuke does go off, it leaves a radioactive signature that is readily identified.
So there's no way of hiding that a US nuke is not a US nuke if one is stolen and then detonated.

We are just letting the public know that there has been an incident... We are increasingly becoming an unreliable government and we know you dont
trust us anymore. There is a possibillity of some nukes having have left the U.S. of having had been stolen out of U.S. possession and you should all
not worry. We are competent. Trust us as you have before. We understand the meaning of life... We have sacrificed 4000 soldiers for our country and
let some possible nukes slip out all for your safety... To the American People I am proud to be American and I am proud to say that I was a part of a
Military that got all of you blown up (in the future of course) By the way... This war on terror was pointless... All of the countries were going
after binladen and we have not found him yet... We are not intelligent enough to find a terrorist on kidney dialysis...

On a more serious note. Im scared to crap myself. How on earth would they exspect the population to react? Im not scared for myself... Im scared
for humanity... what have we become?

Well if you play out that horrific scenario, doubtless you'd have the "official report" that would say what it would have to say, and independent
testing that disputed it. You could also do a nuke/dirty bomb mix to muck things up as well, I would assume. So agreed, you can fudge anything if you
have to.

1. 4 nukes didn't get shipped. 4 fuses got shipped, which is a huge difference. Somewhere along the line a comptroller screwed up and i'm sure he
will be fired. You see when you order something in the military (like batteries) you use that items NSN number. Sometimes people make a mistake and
use the wrong NSN, 1 wrong digit could be the difference between you getting a lightbulb and a anchor. BUT there are comptrollers in place above the
units to make sure the NSN they request is the right one.

2. A full inventory by Serial is not out of the ordinary and it is a physical inspection. The tactical commander will take his master hand receipt and
go around to each of the nuclear weapons and look at the serial on the data plate and match it to the one on the receipt that he signed when he took
command. One time we had a guy leave a SINCGARS radio in his ruck and took it home. So our entire battalion had to lay out every radio so he could
physically look at the serials to make sure they were in fact ours. This is the same concept just on a much larger scale.

Originally posted by goosdawg
And if the numbers don't match, what then?

During a press conference after finding several small devices missing from our arsenal...

Bush: "Well, the nu-clear device probably went missing during the Clintons' administration anyway.. Next question.. Yes.."

Reporter: "I almost can't believable this. Mr. President, how does something like this even happen? Where is the accountab-"

Bush: "Let me tell you something.. My people tell me that they have these office supplies closets at places of work. Now, no matter how hard
they try, no matter what procedures the bosses put in place, employees are going to steel pens from the supplies and bring them home. The current
situation in the defense department is kind of like that."

of course. If i'm also pretty sure you can't just order a nuke. Serious questions would be asked like, Why do you need one? what happened to the old
one? followed by a Inspector general and a carnival of auditors coming up in your @#$. Secondly, fuses are explosives, they have a small charge in
them to detonate the larger charge yadda yadda. Therefore they have special shipping requirements and requisitions and whatnot. I just see a host of
problems with this little mishap and a few people are going to be looking for jobs shorty.

Short answer to your question: Yes, not just anyone can order this stuff. Although, since it's not my area and I'm not familiar with the checks
associated with ordering these parts i couldn't tell you who can.

Short answer to your question: Yes, not just anyone can order this stuff. Although, since it's not my area and I'm not familiar with the checks
associated with ordering these parts i couldn't tell you who can.

They supposed ordered batteries and got nuclear triggers instead. These are highly classified. Stinks to high heaven.

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